Platformer 2022 for PC — top best games in the Platformer genre

Rogue Legacy 2 - a game in the Platformer genre

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 19 August 2020; Game released: PC → 28 April 2022

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 89/100

One day, a brave knight gets to a mysterious place where some kind of devilry happened many years ago. Skeletons, ghosts and other evil spirits roam everywhere, and...

Sonic Frontiers

Action, Third-person view, Adventure, Open world, Platformer, Exploration

Game released: PC → 8 November 2022

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Sonic Frontiers is a continuation of the classic action-adventure game with a third-person view in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. Doctor Eggman once again strives...

Astral Ascent

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Slasher, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 12 April 2022; Game released: PC → 14 November 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Four heroes with unique personalities try to escape from the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 godlike and treacherous Zodiacs. The game has dozens of unique...

Salt and Sacrifice

Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy, Metroidvania, Action

Game released: PC → 7 November 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Continuation of Salt and Sanctuary, which tells the story of a condemned criminal who becomes an inquisitor hunting mages in a whimsical fantasy world. The events...

Have a Nice Death

Arcade, Side view, Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Slasher, Indie, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 22 March 2023; Early Access: PC → 8 March 2022

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

The main character is the mortally bored director Death, whose subordinates have completely lost their shores and turned the balance of the coming and going of...

Hidden Deep

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Early Access: PC → 24 January 2022; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8.3/10

Hidden Deep is an action-adventure platformer with elements of horror, survival and a side view. The game takes place in a research complex two kilometers under the...

Super Meat Boy Forever

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: PC → 10 January 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the hardcore arcade runner Super Meat Boy. The game has a full story, six new chapters and twice as many bosses. Meat Boy and Band-Aid Girl try to...

Ghost Song

Arcade, Side view, Metroidvania, Science fiction, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Horror, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 3 November 2022

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Ghost Song is an action-adventure platformer in the metroidvania genre with a side view in a dark post-apocalyptic setting. On the desert moon of Lorian, the...

Samurai Maiden

Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Slasher, Visual novel, Adventure, Role-playing game, Historical, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 1 December 2022

Players: 5/10

Samurai Maiden is a Japanese action-adventure action RPG in the anime genre with platformer and visual novel elements. The temple is on fire. Plumes of black smoke...

FAR: Changing Tides

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 1 March 2022

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 79/100

FAR: Changing Tides is an adventure puzzle-platformer with a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting, which is the spiritual successor to FAR: Lone Sails from...

Kao the Kangaroo

Arcade, Third-person view, Adventure, Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 27 May 2022

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Kao the Kangaroo is a reboot of the popular series of arcade action platformers about Kao the Kangaroo. This time the hero will have to find his missing sister and...

Sonic Origins

Arcade, Side view, Platformer, Runner, Action, Collection

Game released: PC → 23 June 2022

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Sonic Origins is a collection of classic Sonic adventures that includes four classic games about the blue hedgehog: Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Sonic CD (1993...

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Adventure, Platformer, Arcade, Action, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: PC → 27 October 2022

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a spin-off of the LittleBigPlanet series, dedicated to sackboy — a small toy man. The game is a 2.5D platformer in which sackboy...

Souldiers

Arcade, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 2 June 2022

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Souldiers is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. Together with other fighters fighting for the glory of their kingdom, you...

Neon White

Action, First-person view, Platformer, Parkour, Adventure

Game released: PC → 16 June 2022

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 88/100

The main character comes to his senses in heaven: he doesn’t remember anything, there are many poor fellows around like him, and angels are visible ahead. The...

Spidersaurs

Arcade, Side view, Comics, Platformer, Shooter, Comedy, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 14 July 2022

Metacritic: 71/100

Spidersaurs is a fun side-scrolling arcade action platformer with sci-fi elements. Ugly spiderosaurs — hybrids of dinosaurs and spiders — have broken...

Zorro The Chronicles

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Slasher, Adventure, Comics, Platformer

Game released: PC → 16 June 2022

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 49/100

Zorro The Chronicles is an action-adventure slasher game with a third-person view, based on the animated series The Chronicles of Zorro. In the game you have to get...

OlliOlli World

Arcade, Side view, Third-person view, Platformer, Sports game, Skateboards, Stunts

Game released: PC → 8 February 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 86/100

OlliOlli World is the sequel to the explosive skateboarding action platformer. You will have to drive through the vibrant and vibrant world of Redland in search of...

Freedom Planet 2

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 13 September 2022

Freedom Planet 2 is an arcade platformer inspired by the popular Sonic series. The game has three main characters. Each of them will delight you with unique...

Moonscars

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Slasher

Game released: PC → 27 September 2022

Metacritic: 73/100

Moonscars is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. Under the dark moonlight, the fierce clay warrior Gray Irma fights, driven by a lonely goal: to find the...

Islets

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Metroidvania, Platformer, Fantasy, Action, Open world

Game released: PC → 24 August 2022

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Islets is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with Metroidvania elements in a fantasy setting. Aiko is an aspiring warrior who explores the skies and earth...

RWBY: Arrowfell

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 15 November 2022

RWBY: Arrowfell is an arcade action platformer with slasher elements and a side view in the RWBY universe. You will play as four members of Team RWBY — Ruby...

Tinykin

Logic, Puzzle, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Platformer, Arcade, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 30 August 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Tinykin is an arcade adventure puzzle platformer with a third-person view. Milo arrives on Earth and discovers that he is too small for this world, all its...

HunterX

Adventure, Action, Slasher, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 29 April 2022

Players: 5.5/10

HunterX is an action-adventure platformer with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. On the night of a dark purple moon, a girl who seems to...

Shovel Knight Dig

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy, Old school, Medieval era, Procedural generation

Game released: PC → 23 September 2022

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 83/100

A fast-paced action platformer with roguelike elements set in the Shovel Knight universe. Shovel Knight embarks on a new adventure, digging ever deeper in search of...

Endling - Extinction is Forever

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Adventure, Indie, Stealth

Game released: PC → 19 July 2022

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Endling — Extinction is Forever is a fun side-scrolling adventure in which you need to help the last adult fox on Earth. She needs to lead her three cubs to...

SANABI

Adventure, Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view

Early Access: PC → 21 June 2022; Game released: PC → 9 November 2023

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

The game takes place in a cyberpunk city in which power belongs to a corrupt conglomerate. One day something inexplicable happens — after a sudden power...

Silt

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 1 June 2022

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 71/100

The actions of the game take place in the depths of the sea, where various monsters live. With the help of soul transference, the main character can use the...

Soda Crisis

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Runner

Game released: PC → 24 May 2022

Players: 9/10

Soda Crisis is a side-scrolling action-platformer with a sci-fi setting. You play as a mysterious character of unknown origin, armed with advanced high-tech...

Dungeon Munchies

Indie, Action, Adventure, Side view, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Early Access: PC → 5 June 2019; Game released: PC → 27 July 2022

Metacritic: 54/100

Dungeon Munchies is a side-scrolling adventure role-playing action platformer in a fantasy setting. The game will tell a story about a necromancer cook who hunts...

Axiom Verge 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view

Game released: PC → 11 August 2021

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Axiom Verge 2 is a continuation of the side-scrolling pixel action platformer in a sci-fi setting. In the sequel you will find new characters, skills and game...

Tower Princess

Adventure, Indie, Action, Role-playing game, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 8 September 2022

Tower Princess is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. One day, in a distant land, the Evil Dragon stole all the royal princesses...

ITORAH

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 21 March 2022

Metacritic: 61/100

ITORAH is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. In the game, you can try on the role of Itora, the only person left in the colorful...

Madshot

Adventure, Arcade, Side view, Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 9 June 2022; Game released: PC → 18 July 2023

Action roguelike, set in a Lovecraftian horror setting. Cthulhu swallowed up an entire city. The only thing left for you as the main character is to destroy the...

Pac-Man World Re-Pac

Arcade, Side view, Platformer, Action, Top-down view, Casual game

Game released: PC → 26 August 2022

Metacritic: 70/100

Pac-Man World Re-Pac is a remake of the excellent action platformer about Pac-Man with a side view, a funny plot and an abundance of gameplay mechanics, released in...

Hell Pie

Platformer, Adventure, Action, Comedy, Indie, Arcade, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 21 July 2022

Players: 6.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Hell Pie is an action-adventure arcade platformer with elements of humor and a third-person view. You have to take the demon of bad taste, Nate, by the horns. He is...

Jitsu Squad

Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Arcade, Platformer

Game released: PC → 29 March 2022

Players: 4.5/10

A bright game similar to the Marvel vs. series. Capcom. Four characters fight opponents, including strong bosses, performing powerful combos. In co-op mode you can...

Terror of Hemasaurus

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy, Old school

Game released: PC → 17 October 2022

Terror of Hemasaurus is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with local co-op in a science fiction setting. In the game you have to get used to the role of a...

HAAK

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 25 August 2022; Early Access: PC → 16 September 2020

Players: 8.4/10

HAAK is a side-scrolling action adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will find yourself in a dark futuristic world of the future, where unique...

Little Noah: Scion of Paradise

Action, Roguelike, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Steampunk, Point & Click,

Game released: PC → 28 June 2022

Little Noah: Scion of Paradise is a side-scrolling action-adventure roguelike set in a fantasy setting. As Noah, you will travel to ancient ruins to uncover their...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2022 for PC